Named Entity Results, Delphi (Greece)

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When the Epidamnians found that no help could
be expected from Corcyra, they were in a strait what to do next.
So they sent to Delphi and inquired of the god, whether they should deliver
their city to the Corinthians, and endeavor to obtain some assistance from
their founders.
The answer he gave them was to deliver the city, and place themselves under
Corinthian protection.
So the Epidamnians went to Corinth, and delivered over the colony in
obedience to the commands of the oracle.
They showed that their founder came from Corinth, and revealed the answer
of the god; and they begged them not to allow them to perish, but to assist them.
This the Corinthians consented to do. Believing the

tlers, as she had nothing to do with Epidamnus.
If, however, she had any claims to make, they were willing to submit the
matter to the arbitration of such of the cities in Peloponnese as should be
chosen by mutual agreement,
and that the colony should remain with the city
to whom the arbitrators might assign it.
They were also willing to refer the matter to the oracle at Delphi.
If, in defiance of their protestations, war was appealed to,
they should be
themselves compelled by this violence to seek friends in quarters where they
had no desire to seek them, and to make even old ties give way to the
necessity of assistance.
The answer they got from Corinth was, that if they would withdraw their
fleet and the barbarian

Meanwhile the rebels in Ithome, unable to
prolong further a ten years' resistance, surrendered to Lacedaemon; the conditions being that they should depart from Peloponnese under safe
conduct, and should never set foot in it again:
any one who might hereafter be found there was to be the slave of his
captor.
It must be known that the Lacedaemonians had an old oracle from Delphi, to
the effect that they should let go the suppliant of Zeus at Ithome.
So they went forth with their children and their wives, and being received
by Athens from the hatred that she now felt for the Lacedaemonians, were
located at Naupactus, which she had lately taken from the Ozolian Locrians.
The Athenians received another addition to their confederacy in the

y of these were detached to Egypt at the instance of Amyrtaeus, the
king in the marshes; the rest laid siege to Kitium, from which, however,
they were compelled to retire by the death of Cimon and by scarcity of
provisions.
Sailing off Salamis in Cyprus, they fought with the Phoenicians, Cyprians,
and Cilicians by land and sea, and being victorious on both elements
departed home, and with them the returned squadron from Egypt.
After this the Lacedaemonians marched out on a sacred war, and becoming
masters of the temple at Delphi, placed it in the hands of the Delphians.
Immediately after their retreat, the Athenians marched out, became masters
of the temple, and placed it in the hands of the Phocians.

their own confederacy became the object of its encroachments.
They then felt that they could endure it no longer, but that the time had
come for them to throw themselves heart and soul upon the hostile power, and
break it, if they could, by commencing the present war.
And though the Lacedaemonians had made up their own minds on the fact of
the breach of the treaty and the guilt of the Athenians, yet they sent to
Delphi and inquired of the god whether it would be well with them if they
went to war; and, as it is reported, received from him the answer that if they put their
whole strength into the war, victory would be theirs, and the promise that
he himself would be with them, whether invoked or uninvoked.

ed the Athenians we will in season desist.
We have many reasons to expect success,—first, superiority in
numbers and in military experience, and secondly our general and unvarying
obedience in the execution of orders.
The naval strength
which they possess shall be raised by us from our respective antecedent
resources, and from the monies at Olympia and Delphi.
A loan from these enables us to seduce their foreign sailors by the offer
of higher pay.
For the power of Athens is more mercenary than national; while ours will not be exposed to the same risk, as its strength lies more
in men than in money.
A single defeat at sea is in all likelihood their ruin: should they hold
out, in that case there will be the more t

Lacedaemonian embassy was to order the Athenians to drive out the
curse of the goddess; the history of which is as follows.
In former generations there was an Athenian of the name of Cylon, a victor
at the Olympic games, of good birth and powerful position, who had married a
daughter of Theagenes, a Megarian, at that time tyrant of Megara.
Now this Cylon was inquiring at Delphi; when he was told by the god to seize the Acropolis of Athens on the grand
festival of Zeus.
Accordingly, procuring a force from Theagenes and persuading his friends to
join him, when the Olympic festival in Peloponnese came, he seized the
Acropolis, with the intention of making himself tyrant, thinking that this
was the grand festival of Zeus, and also an occasion appropr

was still a minor.
But by his contempt of the laws and imitation of the barbarians,
he gave grounds for much suspicion of his being discontented with things
established; all the occasions on which he had in any way departed from the regular
customs were passed in review, and it was remembered that he had taken upon
himself to have inscribed on the tripod at Delphi, which was dedicated by
the Hellenes as the first-fruits of the spoil of the Medes, the following
couplet:—
The Mede defeated, great Pausanias raised
This monument, that Phoebus might be praised.
At the time the Lacedaemo

starvation.
When they found that he was on the point of expiring, just as he was, in
the chamber, they brought him out of the temple, while the breath was still
in him, and as soon as he was brought out he died.
They were going to throw him into the Kaiadas, where they cast criminals,
but finally decided to inter him somewhere near.
But the god at Delphi afterwards ordered the Lacedaemonians to remove the
tomb to the place of his death—where he now lies in the
consecrated ground, as an inscription on a monument declares—and,
as what had been done was a curse to them, to give back two bodies instead
of one to the goddess of the Brazen House.
So they had two brazen statues made, and dedicated them as a substitute for

Even if they were to touch the moneys at
Olympia or Delphi, and try to seduce our foreign sailors by the temptation
of higher pay, that would only be a serious danger if we could not still be
a match for them, by embarking our own citizens and the aliens resident
among us.
But in fact by this means we are always a match for them; and, best of all, we have a larger and higher class of native coxswains and
sailors among our own citizens than all the rest of Hellas.
And to say nothing of the danger of such a step, none of our foreign
sailors would consent to become an outlaw from his country, and to take
service with them and their hopes, for the sake of a few days' high pay.
This